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c . Declassified and Approved For Release 2013/06/24 : CIA-RDP79B00752A000300090001-6 | UFOs--WHAT ARE THEY? (F.Yu. Zigel') Source: Smena (Change); No.7, February 1967, pages 27-29 (Prefatory Note. The publishing house of Hayka (Science) is preparing for publication a collection of scientific articles Naselennyy Kosmos (The Inhabited Cosmos )( chief editor, B. P. Konstantinov, Vice President Academy of *ciences USSR) in which along with consideration of such problems as the dis- tribution of life in space, the habitability of the planets, communications with extraterrestrial civilizations, the…

Declassified and Approved For Release 2013/06/24 : CIA-RDP79B00752A000300090001-6 of great discoveries which shocked the world-view of mankind. Make an effort and imagine that all this very long his- tory of science has suddenly been compressed in time and, so to speak, passed through human consciousness in the course of 10-15 years. But this example is not an abstraction but a rea- lity. this is what will happen to us who live through the next decade in which the volume of scientific information, achieved in the process of cognition, will double. Our minds should be prepared for a fundamental…

Declassified and Approved For Release 2013/06/24 : CIA-RDP79B00752A000300090001-6 Curious are the observations of Menzel himself who twice was able to see this puzzling phenomenon. On the f rst occasion during a trip by auto Menzel noted over Sacramento/two strange hazy saucers with faint pale-blue illumination. The saucers rapidly disappeared and reappeared “Unfortunately, I was forced to acknowledge," writes D. Menzel,"that I could not exactly explain this phenomenon." The second time Menzel and several astronomers at the “acramento Peak Observatory "how suddently in the sky there appeared a…

Declassified and Approved For Release 2013/06/24 : CIA-RDP79B00752A000300090001-6 color changes, extending over several minutes, were accom- panied by radio interference, though no magnetic storm was in process at the time. In the same year UFO reports were received from England, France, Portugal and other coutries. In the summer of 1965 above the airport of Canberra there appeared a soaring object which duty personnel at the field inthe control tower saw perfectly clearly. It hung over the airport for about 0 minutes and disappeared only when a plane was sent up to identify it. Near Canberra,…

{ Declassified and Approved For Release 2013/06/24 : CIA-RDP79B00752A000300090001-6 well as in several other countries, the riddle of UFOs has be- come a scientific problem and highly~-qualified specialists (as- tronomers, physicists, mathematicians, sociologists, and others) have been called upon to solve it. The American profess J. Valley, who took part in the In- ternational Mathematical Congress in 1966 in Moscow, recently published three detailed scientific monographs on UFOs. “hese comprise a complete investigation of this interesting problem end although the author does not come down in…

— _ ee re oo ee | Declassified and Approved For Release 2013/06/24 : CIA-RDP79B00752A000300090001-6 the fall of stones from the sky was denied by such great sci- entists as Lavoissier. According to the pronouncement of French academicians (1772) "the falling of stones from the sky is physically impossible," and this phenomenon "can in no way be reasonably explained." The objections of those who demonstrated the reality of meteorites were to be explained by eti-scientific delirium and stupidity, "unworthy even of refutation." Second Explanation. UFOs exist but actually they are not what they se…

Declassified and Approved For Release 2013/06/24 : CIA-RDP79B00752A000300090001-6 (Picture caption cont'd) the air. In the opinion of British spe- cialists the possibility of an optical illusion is practically excluded. Fourth Explanation. The UFO is an unknown natural phenomenon. The material world which surrounds us is endlessly diverse and complex. *here is no doubt but what the non-understood phenomena of nature are immeasurably more numerous than those which have been studied and understood. Perhaps UFOs represent something new and unprecedented just as, let us say, radioactivity was to u…

, « Declassified and Approved For Release 2013/06/24 : CIA-RDP79B00752A000300090001-6 Fifth Explantiony, Bordering on thetFantastic. UFOs are flying craft from other planets which are sur- veying the Earth. Obviously, the hypothesis of a foreign-planet artificial origin of UFOs is an extreme point of view and at first glance completely improbable. Therefore we have placed it last, as a sort of antipodes to the first -axplanation--unsubstantiated denial. However, since the problem of UFOs has still not been solved, various, including fantastic, points of view are pos- sible. "We are far from th…